The CineLink Work in Progress section at Sarajevo Film Festival, which showcases feature film projects from Southeast Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, has selected eight fiction and three documentary projects.
Among the subjects of the projects are a teen threesome in North Macedonia that leads to a troublesome pregnancy, a shipwreck hiding a sacred amulet on the Atlantic coast of the Sahara, a crumbling blue bus in 1950s Turkey, and mysterious aunt in rural Serbia.
The projects will be presented to international film funders, sales agents, distributors, broadcasters and festival programmers with the aim of helping them be completed and boost their distribution chances.
The films “explore the complexities of human nature and the fragility of social consensus, and the tensions between collective expectations and personal anxieties,” the festival said. “What unites these films is a shared sensitivity to the nuances of human relationships, between generations, individuals, and communities.
Among the subjects of the projects are a teen threesome in North Macedonia that leads to a troublesome pregnancy, a shipwreck hiding a sacred amulet on the Atlantic coast of the Sahara, a crumbling blue bus in 1950s Turkey, and mysterious aunt in rural Serbia.
The projects will be presented to international film funders, sales agents, distributors, broadcasters and festival programmers with the aim of helping them be completed and boost their distribution chances.
The films “explore the complexities of human nature and the fragility of social consensus, and the tensions between collective expectations and personal anxieties,” the festival said. “What unites these films is a shared sensitivity to the nuances of human relationships, between generations, individuals, and communities.
- 8/1/2025
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Kosara Mitic’s teenage drama 17 is among the 11 features participating in the work-in-progress strand of CineLink Industry Days (August 16-21), the industry platform of Sarajevo Film Festival.
Macedonian director Mitic’s debut feature will follow a 17-year-old girl who gets pregnant after a threesome with her classmates; and her attempts to hide the pregnancy become more difficult during a graduation excursion.
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The film is produced by Tomi Salkovski for North Macedonia’s Black Cat Production, in co-production with Serbia’s Art&Popcorn and Slovenia’s December.
The Sarajevo selection includes eight fiction features,...
Macedonian director Mitic’s debut feature will follow a 17-year-old girl who gets pregnant after a threesome with her classmates; and her attempts to hide the pregnancy become more difficult during a graduation excursion.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
The film is produced by Tomi Salkovski for North Macedonia’s Black Cat Production, in co-production with Serbia’s Art&Popcorn and Slovenia’s December.
The Sarajevo selection includes eight fiction features,...
- 8/1/2025
- ScreenDaily
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